Eastern Europe Quotes

• General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Patriotic, Europe

  Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, delivered 12 June 1987, West Berlin

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• Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

  Niki Lauda

  Europe, Vienna, Eastern

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Europe, Presidential Debate, Domination

  Televised presidential debate, 6 Oct. 1976

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• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

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• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Iron, History

  Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 5 Mar. 1946.

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• More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Dark, Opportunity, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.

  Nigel Farage

  Believe, School, Doors

  "Conservative right calls for return to core values and end to 'barmy' policies" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Country, Europe, Today

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• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Lying, Europe

  "The Sinews of Peace". Winston Churchill's speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, www.nato.int. March 5, 1946.

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• I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

  Paul Keating

  Taken, Mean, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Agreement, Europe, Broken

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• Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

  Joe Slovo

  Party, Government, Europe

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• The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

  Arthur Scargill

  Leadership, Party, Europe

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• Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Country, Europe, Eastern

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• There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Myth, Eastern

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• I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

  Harold H. Greene

  Country, Thinking, Europe

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• Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

  Angela Merkel

  War, Europe, Two

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• I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

  Nicholas Royle

  Artist, Europe, Theatre

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but increasingly targeted towards women, especially in Northern Europe.

  Peter Boyle

  Men, Europe, Numbers

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• In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of more than a half million of the nation's Jews. And here we are now, more than 70 years later, witnessing a resurgence of xenophobia and authoritarianism, and not just in Eastern Europe.

  Susan Faludi

  Xenophobia, Years, Europe

  "Dear Susan, I Have Some Interesting News for You…". Interview With Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, www.motherjones.com. July 9, 2016.

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• The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

  George Will

  Years, Europe, Unions

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• America has always been the most fertile ground for models - and they were always exported to other countries. When Eastern Europe opened up its doors to the rest of the world, a lot of the girls that were basically working there for $1 a month realized that if they were beautiful and that they could go to Paris and work for $1,000 a day versus the $10,000 that the other girls were demanding. So it created a huge imbalance in the financial structure of how clients could budget out campaigns. The market became flooded.

  Michael Flutie

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Borat shows American stereotypes of Eastern Europe but it's an accurate depiction of what a certain type of American is. They think they can buy and sell these girls and then they get bought and sold.

  Eli Roth

  Girl, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Country, Running, Uncles

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• A lot of heavyweights, with the exception of a few Eastern Europe fighters, they really look like being a heavyweight is just like, who can eat the most Pizza Hut and McDonalds.

  Randy Johnson

  Mcdonalds, Europe, Heavyweights

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